Bologna, Italy, January 26th-31st 2010
www.futurefilmfestival.org
Future Film Festival at a glance
Worldwide and Italian previews of images, homages and conferences take place in one of the oldest
and most beautiful European cities, a center of national and internation value. Future Film Festival is the
first and most important Italian event dedicated to the production of images realized with the latest
computer technologies, an event highly appreciated by audience and press.

Reportage Future Film Festival 2010
The 12th edition of Future Film Festival took place in Bologna (Italy) from 26th to 31st of January 2010 at
Teatro Duse and Palazzo Re Enzo.

Future Film Festival 2010 – numbers
A lot of people came at the Future Village (Palazzo Re Enzo), in the historic center of the city, and participated in screenings, workshops, conferences, dj sets and cocktails.
The screenings and the events were very crowded, in particular Teatro Duse, where the most important
previews took place, but also Sala Hera, in Palazzo Re Enzo, where meetings and conferences were held.
More than 250 national and international journalists accredited; 280 student accreditations and over 350 professionals
coming from all over Italy for the Festival; 120 events among
screenings and conferences; 21 feature films premières, in
competition and out of competition (Italian and European
previews); 120 short films competing in the Future Film Short
section– Groupama Audience Award and Provincia di Bologna Award; 25 different countries involved in the event. More
than 250 articles and reports published by the most important Italian newspapers and TV channels, such as: TG2, TG3,
Raisat, La7, Il Manifesto, XL – La Repubblica, Radio Tre, Box
Office, La Stampa, Il Sole 24 Ore, Alias; more than 30,000 visitors of the website in January.

Future Film Festival 2010 – Tributes
Saul Bass & Motion Graphics
Future Film Festival 2010, following its constant analysis of animated
images, dedicated a focus to the Motion Graphics, nowadays one of
the most used techniques by young artists, in which the graphic applications give the illusion of movement.
Future Film Festival focused on some key figures of contemporary
motion graphics as Mischa Rozema, cofounder of Post Panic, the
production company based in Holland, and author of commercials
and videos for well known brands as Nike and MTV, and the English
artist Rob Chiu (alias The Ronin), author of a lot of works for Nokia,
BBC, EMI, Greenpeace and many others. The FFF also focused on their
source of inspiration: the work by Saul Bass, great opening titles’ author and pioneer of motion graphics. Design Films held two lessons
on many of the major Bass works. The lessons included the screening
of the original titles by Saul Bass and by those made by contemporary
designers who get inspiration from him.
Saul Bass (1920-1996) is one of the key figures on graphic headlines
Merlin Crossingham
for cinema. Thanks to Saul Bass, this work became an art. When he
from Aardman Animations
was young, he began his career as an assistant in the art department
of Warner Bros, based in New York, and he gained experience in the field of Constructivism and Bauhaus.
After some experiences as a graphic designer, in 1954 Bass collaborated with Otto Preminger for the
Carmen Jones poster and opening titles. After that, he realized The Seven Year Itch (1955), The Big Knife
(1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) title sequences. In 1959 he realized the Preminger’s Anatomy
of a Murder poster and its animated opening sequence with the original jazz score by Duke Ellington.
Saul Bass collaborated also with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese, working on
Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Spartacus (1964), Goodfellas (1990). He also worked with Steven Spielberg
and he realized the posters for the Academy Awards from 1991 to 1996.
Stop-Motion Animation
After the great success of Henry Selick’s latest film, Coraline, Future Film Festival paid homage to one of
the oldest animation techniques, now used in a very inventive way by artists and production companies.
A fil rouge accompanied the audience through movies, labs and meetings dedicated to stop-motion. The
key figures of this focus were the artists from Aardman Animations (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit),
the English artist, Osbert Parker, famous for the original mix in his works of a lot of techniques, from
stop-motion to cut-out to live action, and the producer of Fantastic Mr. Fox Allison Abbate, from the
English company Frankenweenie.
For the first time the prestigious Museo della Figurina, located in Modena, hosted three events organised by Future Film Festival: two screenings of short films in stop-motion made in Eastern Europe and a
workshop on puppet animation for kids.

Avatar by James Cameron

Future Film Festival 2010 – Special Events
Joe Letteri and the Making of Avatar
One of the highlights of the 12th edition was the Keynote Speech by Joe Letteri, Senior Visual Effects
Supervisor of Avatar, who presented, in World Premiere, the making of the last, awesome James Cameron’s movie.
Regione Animata – Projects Award
In Absolute Premiere, the results of Projects Award, the competition organised with the network Regione Animata and Emilia-Romagna Film Commission. With the support of Regione Emilia-Romagna –
Assessorato alla Cultura and of the Presidenza del Consiglio del Ministri – POGAS, in 2007 the FFF had
proposed the first competition dedicated to emerging animators and artists living in Emilia-Romagna,
with the aim to realize short films and/or tv pilots.
The completed works by Luca Pinciani, Federico Guidi, Andrea Nadalini and Ettore Tomas were shown
and commented by the authors during a special event, with the special guest Guido De Maria, juror of
the competition.

Videogames & Cinema: Comparing Business Models
Riccardo Cangini, founder of Artematica, explained the new possibilities offered by the new platforms,
like iPhone or online channels, and the interaction between cinema and videogames. The event was
coordinated by Jaime D’Alessandro.

B2B meetings: for the 2010 edition the guest was Canada

Canuck Animation
Future Film Festival this year focused on Canadian animation, hosting the delegates of two important
Canadian companies, Sardine Productions and Starz Entertainment. In collaboration with Regione
Emilia-Romagna, Assessorato alle AttivitĂ Produttive.
Videoclip â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Painted Music
A selection of the Best animated Videoclips, introduced by the authors: Una giornata perfetta by Virgilio Villoresi for Vinicio Capossela; Cinestetica by Stefano Bertelli, for the band Marta sui tubi; Boogie
by Vincenzo Gioanola, for Paolo Conte; Fiori by Ascanio Malgarini, for Adriano Celentano; Diluvio universale by Chiaroscuro, for the band Stadio; Porpora by Tommaso Cerasuolo, for Marco Notari; Skate by
Sonia Cucculelli, for Tulsa is Ok.
Special guests: the band Stadio and Chiaroscuro.

Some Quotes
“How Avatar was born? Future Film Festival will tell you about with the
world premiere of the making of the movie. Directed by Giulietta Fara and
Oscar Cosulich, the kermesse shows the best of animation and special effects”.
“The 12th edition of Future Film Festival has officially started. From the 26th
to the 31st of January, Bologna turns into the national capital of animation
cinema, exploring all the most important contaminations between technology and cinema with competence and interest”.
“Future Film Festival opens in Bologna, and stereoscopic tecnology,
launched by the huge success obtained worldwide by Avatar, will be its
Star”.
“In the year of Avatar, the epic 3D film by James Cameron, some people
say that the future of cinema has already arrived. Over the last decade, the
world of special effects and animation has undergone enormous changes:
there is an event which since 1999 explores these changes and every year
attracts onlookers, aficionados and professionals of the sector: Future Film
Festival”.
“Future Film Festival, the international festival of animation and new technologies applied to images, has reached its 12th birthday. (...) This edition,
as the past ones, will feature the premieres of the best of worldwide animated film productions”.
“On one hand, the latest 3D technologies, on the other hand, an old but
still fascinating technique, named stop motion. These are the two main
topics of the 12th edition of the Future Film Festival, the flagship cultural
event of our institutions”.